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Charles Fishburne

Charles Fishburne is a correspondent for WCVE Public Radio. He brings over 40 years experience as a broadcast journalist and news executive in Richmond, Washington D.C. and New York. Charles was also a long-time television news anchor and news director in Richmond.

Articles by Charles Fishburne

Hillary Clinton maintains a six-point lead over Donald Trump in Virginia, according to a Wason Poll released this morning (11/7).

The final poll is out, and that’s what Christopher Newport University’s Wason Center says the day before elections. Dr. Rachel Bitercofer, Assistant Director, says Trump regained some lost ground among Republican women, but still faces a 10 point gender gap.

This poll was taken after the news that the FBI was re-examining Clinton emails, but before the announcement yesterday they found nothing to warrant any charges.

A Gloucester County man with Alzheimer’s is part of a highly-experimental procedure called Deep Brain Stimulation. Also used with Parkinson’s patients, researchers are testing whether the therapy helps cognition and memory for those with Alzheimer’s.

Don Talbott was playing in a gospel band, when his wife Christy noticed something wrong.

Christy Talbott: He would sort of space out. He would stop playing in the middle of a song, he would stop singing if it was a singing part for him.

The issue of prayers in public meetings will get a full hearing by the Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals for the first time, since a landmark Supreme Court decision in 2014.

The Supreme Court ruled that public prayers in government meetings were constitutional as long as they reflected tradition and embraced diversity.

Carl Tobias, Law Professor at the University of Richmond, says the North Carolina case could spell it out. The Rowan County, North Carolina Board of Supervisors had been opening meetings with prayers, mostly Christian.

The Virginia Tech Professor who blew the whistle in the Flint Michigan water poisoning scandal has just been named an American Ingenuity Winner by Smithsonian Magazine.

Answering a mother’s cry for help, Virginia Tech Envionmental Professor Marc Edwards took a team to Flint, and found elevated lead levels and bacteria in tap water the EPA and other agencies had said was safe.

Lead levels are down, but this week another Tech team is back in Flint for a final round of testing.

Edwards will be presented his award by Smithsonian Magazine in December.

The Federal government is cracking down on an IRS phone scam that has victimized about 15 thousand people nationwide, including Virginia.

An 85-year old woman in San Diego was fleeced out of $12,300. An elderly man in California was repeatedly terrorized until his account was drained of 136 thousand dollars. And the callers have targeted Virginia.

We did the story several months ago. But this morning, State Police Spokesperson Corinne Geller says it has not gone away.